Belongings deeply important to tribal communities are often housed in museums far away from those communities. Professor & author Trevor Bond will talk about how the Nez Perce Tribe and their allies purchased the largest and oldest collection of Nez Perce material culture from a museum over 2,000 miles away from their homeland.
This free event is on Oct. 16, 2024, at 4 pm in the Reading Room (Wilson 4 Central) at WWU Libraries. In this hopeful story of cultural resiliency and making amends for past injustices, explore issues surrounding collection and curation, and the changing relationships between museums and Native communities.
This talk is offered as part of the Archives & Special Collections Distinguished Speaker Series and the Human Washington Speakers Bureau and is co-sponsored by Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Humanities WA, & WWU's depts of History, Art & Art History, and Anthropology.
